In just the five years 2011 - 2015, people suffering from arthritis spent $54.4 billion on arthritis pain medication.

And not a single one of those people were cured of arthritis by those medicines.

Rheumatoid arthritis medication and osteoarthritis medication are GREAT products for the pharmaceutical industry.

Humira is the top selling drug of all time. In 2011 is sold $7.9 billion. In 2015 is sold $14 billion.

Because patients suffering from arthritis are prescribed these drugs to reduce pain levels. And these drugs must be taken FOREVER.

Because they don't cure arthrititis. At best they reduce symptoms.

There's nothing wrong with reducing pain and helping a person get through their day better.

But there IS something wrongwith selling patients a lifelong requirement to a drug that doesn't cure anything, when there is a cure to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

$54 billion (and that's just the drug sales) made based on the iie that arthritis in incurable.

Shameful.

Arthritis MedicationSame For Different Types Of Arhtritis

Unfortunately, when prescribing arthritis medicine, doctors prescribe the same meds regardless of whether their patient has osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis (VERY different kinds of arthritis that share the same symptoms.

Again, this points to that doctors only deal with symptoms, not causes (which points to why they can't cure your arthritis).

If you do some research, you'll see many medical sites that list arthritis drugs...and that list will be the same for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Below you will find lists of categories of arthritis medications, but not by kind of arthritis.

Arthritis Medication By Category

For all kinds of arthritis, doctors prescribe:

Analgesics (pain killers)

Biologics (biologic response modifiers)

Corticosteroids (hormone mimic)

DMARDs (disease modifiying anti-rheumatic drugs)

NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)

And lots of them. Arthritis medication is an $11+ billion dollar industry.

Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)

Addaprin

Advil

Aleve

Anacin

Anaprox

Arthrotec

Bayer

Bufferin

Cambia

Cataflam

Celebrex

Celecoxib

Clinoril

Daypro

Diclofenac potassium

Diflunisal

Duexis

Dyspel

EC-Naprosyn

Ecotrin

Etodolac

Feldene

Fenoprofen

Flurbiprofen

Genpril

Ibuprofen

Indocin

Indomethacin

I-Prin

Ketoprofen

Meclofenamate sodium

Mediproxen

Mefenamic acid

Meloxicam

Mobic

Motrin

Nabumetone

Nalfon

Naprelan

Naprosyn

Naproxen

Oxaprozin

Piroxicam

Therafeldamine

Tivorbex

Tolmetin

Vimovo

Vivlodex

Voltaren

Zipsor

Analgesics (Pain Killers)

Acetaminophen

Anacin (aspirin free)

Avinza

Cocet

Combunox

ConZip

Dolophine

Embeda

Endocet

Endodan

Excedrin

Hycet

Hydrocet

Hydrocodone bitartrate

Hydrogesic

Hysingla

Kadian

Lorcet

Lortab

Magnacet

Maxidone

Methadone hydrochloride

Methadose

Morphine sulfate

Norco

Opana

Oramorph SR

Oxycodone

OxyContin

Oxymorphone hydrochloride

Percocet

Percodan

Primlev

Reprexain

Roxicet

Roxicodone

Rybix

Ryzolt

Tramadol

Tylenol

Ultracet

Ultram

Vicodin

Vicoprofen

Xodol

Xolox

Zamicet

Zohydro ER

Zolvit

Zydone

DMARDs

Arava

Azasan

Azathioprine

Azulfidine

CellCept

Cyclophosphamide

Cyclosporine

Gengraf

Hydroxychloroquine sulfate

Imuran

Leflunomide

Methotrexate

Mycophenolate mofetil

Neoral

Otrexup

Plaquenil

Rasuvo

Rheumatrex

Sandimmune

Sulfasalazine

Sulfazine

Tofacitinib

Trexall

Xeljanz

*Note RE: Humira

It should be noted that the Biologic drug Humira is the top selling drug of all time.

It sold $9.3 Billion in 2012 and $14 billion in 2015.

That's A LOT of drugs to a lot of people.

And the increase in sales brings up the question....are that many more people suffering from arthritis in 2015 than they were in 2012, or are sales tactics and doctor recruitment just that much more effective?

Corticosteroids

Baycadron

Betamethasone

Celestone

Cortef

Cortisone acetate

Dexamethasone

DexPak

Hydrocortisone

Medrol

Methylprednisolone

Millipred

Orapred

Pediapred

Prednisolone

Prednisone

Prelone

Rayos

Veripred 20

Biologics

Abatacept

Actemra

Adalimumab

Anakinra

Certolizumab pegol

Cimzia

Enbrel

Etanercept

Golimumab

Humira

Infliximab

Kineret

Orencia

Remicade

Rituxan

Rituximab

Simponi

Tocilizumab

As you can see from the above lists, there are MANY choices of arthritis medicines to choose from.

There is a lot of competition between drug manufacturers for the dollars in the arthritis market.

Remember, Artritis Medication is an 11+ BILLION dollar per year industry...and it's a drug that doesn't cure arthritis.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication

Rheumatoid arthritis pain medication comes from the lists above.

As has been said, doctors prescribe the above medications for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Osteoarthritis, even though the two have vastly different cause mechanisms.

The hope of rheumatoid arthritis medicine is that it suppresses the auto-immune response mechanism (that creates various symptoms). And some people do experience symptom relief while they're on the drugs.

The problem with symptom suppression however is that there is still an auto-immune mechanism being triggered in the body. And until that trigger is removed, there will always be an auto-immune response being pushed forward.

RA medications can not and will never cure rheumatoid arthritis. It is an impossibility.

But reversing rheumatoid arthritis is a very doable thing. Just not with pharmaceutical drugs and doctors that believe that RA is incurable.